Class Autopsy

UCLA 2023 — what happened to every signee.

UCLA’s 2023 class brought in 17 signees, including 1 five-star. 0 reached the NFL.

17
signees, National Signing Day 2023
1
five-star signees
0
reached the NFL.

The promise

1 five-star signee, ranked nationally — what the hype looked like before a single snap.

No.5National

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

Kaylin Moore
No.5 national · QB
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2 transfersUCLA
UCLA — no scored seasons on record
California — 2023: 20.0
UCLA — 2024: 62.0, 2025: unscored
Jerry McClure
No.315 national · WR
uclaUCLAsan-diego-stateSDSU
1 transferSan Diego State
UCLA — 2023: unscored
San Diego State — 2024: unscored, 2025: 17.0
Grant Gray
No.366 national · WR
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Cameron Jones
No.452 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Luke Duncan
No.511 national · QB
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 25.0
Larry Edwards III
No.533 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Mone Malafu
No.574 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Grant Buckey
No.587 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: 0.0, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Ty Lee
No.587 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 0.0
Tavake Tuikolovatu
No.597 national · IOL
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1 transferKansas
UCLA — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Kansas — 2025: unscored
Isaiah Carlson
No.674 national · ATH
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PortalDestination unresolved
UCLA — 2023: 28.0, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Donavyn Pellot
No.879 national · ATH
uclaUCLA
StayedNever transferred
UCLA — 2023: 0.0, 2024: unscored, 2025: 8.0
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Never made the league

“The No. 5 player in America.”

signed UCLA → never drafted

Peak grade of 62 on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

D
Star power
15 recruiting points
A
Cohesion
82% never transferred
F
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
F
On-field value
mean peak grade 22.5, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in UCLA’s conference

UCLA’s 0 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
UCLA
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
82%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in UCLA’s current conference.
Dropped a level
0
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
12
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.